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Broken Circle Broken Circle
by Kerry Shawn Keys
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One of the poems in Broken Circle, Kerry Shawn Keys entitles Voyage. It's about a cricket, but also about dreaming a cricket, and even a cricket's dream. The poet with his lips pressed against the cricket's wings, weighs anchor "on a round-trip into... (read more)
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Small Small
by Nan Li
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"Poetry's ultimate goal," Li Nan writes, "is to keep oneself in equilibrium with good. It shines a beam of beauty, love, and kindness on people. It has a powerful spirit that transcends nation, race, and religion; it makes it possible for us to embrace... (read more)
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Chinese Windmill Chinese Windmill
by Sen Li
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A member of the group of Chinese poets known as They, Li Sen is well-known in China. Chinese Windmill is a collection of thirty-three of his recent poems, presented in Chinese with facing English translations. Li's poems are profoundly influenced by... (read more)
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Chasing the Saints Chasing the Saints
by Donna Pucciani
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Donna Pucciani's third book of poetry explores the relationship of the human to the divine through the lives of the saints. Pucciani's poems are not "your mama's" lives of the saints but rather meditations on the varieties of holiness espoused by these... (read more)
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The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice
by Elizabeth Raby
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Lust, greed, avarice, gluttony....all are present in the poems of The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice. From the small ache at her center, the poet celebrates and quarrels with the beauty and grief of this world, her hungers of spirit and flesh. The language... (read more)
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Fallen Prose Fallen Prose
by Steven Schroeder
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China is the occasion, not the subject or the object, of the forty-seven poems collected in Steven Schroeder's Fallen Prose - lyrical glimpses of the "new" city in Southern light. Most of the poems in the collection are set in Shenzhen, a few in Zhuhai... (read more)
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The Imperfection of the Eye The Imperfection of the Eye
by Steven Schroeder
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There is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here... (read more)
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Two Southwests Two Southwests
by Sen Li
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This bilingual collection gathers poems by twenty-seven contemporary poets from the southwestern United States and southwestern China - two southwests, two variations on an illusion of geographic precision behind which there are people who find... (read more)
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Pluck a Lotus for Pleasure Pluck a Lotus for Pleasure
by Christopher Kelen
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Pluck a Lotus for Pleasure provides the English reader with a comprehensive collection (in Chinese and English) of works of more than thirty five women poets of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 C.E). Along with little known authors of the period, some of the... (read more)
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Salt Salt
by Jonas Zdanys
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In the poems and linked sequences of his thirty-fifth book, Jonas Zdanys transforms the landscapes he sees, imagines and remembers into new metaphorical configurations and image-patterns, all shaped by his sense of the pervasive and inescapable... (read more)
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